Wile

Definition: Wile

Wile

Noun

1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Wile

Cunning

Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Crosswords: Wile

Wile E. Coyote would come up with a better plan than that (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Empty gestures wile away the hours (Without Love; performing artist: Donna Lewis)

Gonna wile out (No Matta What (Party All Night); performing artist: Toya)

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Books

• Learn Wile You Scrub, Science in the Tub (reference)

• Looney Tunes Wile (reference)

• Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote Action Flip (Instant Replay Action Flip Books) (reference)

• The Native Races - Part 1 Wile Tribes (The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft - Volume 1) (reference)

• Wile E Coyote Whammo (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: The Scrapes of Wrath (reference)

• Space Jam: Road Runner & Wile E Coyote (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Polka Party with Brave Combo: Live and Wile [LIVE] (reference)

• Wile Out The Maxie single (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "wile": wile away. Additional references.

Albanian

kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap), josh (attract, bewitch, charm, dangle, dazzle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp), dredhi (art, artifice, cop out, dodge, duplicity, finesse, gimmick, guile, machination, overreach, pass, ploy, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wangle, wiliness), dinakëri (artfulness, craftiness, cunning, deception, deviousness, mischief, shrewdness, slyness, trickery, wiliness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتل الوقت (kill the time), ‏حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, expedient, fetch, finesse, fraud, gag, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, prank, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, twist), ‏خدعة (artifice, deception, dodge, fetch, fraud, gag, hoax, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize), ‏خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheat, cheating, chicanery, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, knavery, mystification, roguery, spoof, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уловка (ruse, shift, snare, trepan), хитрина (catch, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, dodgery, expedient, fetch, foxiness, legerdemain, shift, trickery, wheeze, wiliness), прекарвам неусетно времето (while), примамвам (coax, decoy, entice, hold forth, inveigle, lure, snare, tempt, train), прилъгвам, изхитрявам. (various references)

Czech

lest (artifice, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick), úskok (dodge, game, jink, ruse, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery). (various references)

Farsi 

فریفتن (Bewitch, Captivate, Charm, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Jilt, Lure, Poop, Seduce, Skunk, Tempt), فریب (Abusive, Cheat, Deceit, Deception, Defraud, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Jazz, Lurch, Lure, Mace, Seducement, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation), مکر (Guile, Ruse), حیله (Deceit, Deception, Evasion, Foul, Gaff, Gimmick, Guile, Humbug, Legerdemain, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Trick), تلبیس (Guile), تزویر (Artifice, Duplicity), خدعه (Deceit, Lurch, Ruse, Trick), اغواکردن (Crimp, Entice, Lure, Seduce, Tempt), بطمع انداختن (Allure). (various references)

French

tuer le temps, ruse (wiliness), escroquer. (various references)

German

list (artfulness, artifice, craftiness, cunning, guile, ploy, ruse, shift, stealth, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wiles). (various references)

Greek 

σαγηνεύω (allure, captivate, enchant, fascinate), πανουργία (archness, artfulness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, guile, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, trickishness, wiliness), τέχνασμα (artifice, claptrap, contraption, contrivance, deception, device, expedient, maneuver, manoeuvre, quirk, ruff, ruse, sleight, subterfuge, trick), τεχνάζομαι (trump), δόλοσ (beguilement, deceit, guile, treacherousness, wiliness). (various references)

Hebrew 

תחבול�" (artifice, expedient, fetch, finesse, hatch, machination, mean, ruse, scheme, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, thingumajig thingumabob, trick), ערמ�" (craftiness, cunning, guile, machination, oodle, prudence, shrewdness, wisdom, wit), �"ו� א�" (cheating, deceit, deception, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, trickery). (various references)

Hungarian

ravaszság (acuity, acuteness, artifice, astuteness, canniness, craftiness, cunning, cuteness, disingenuousness, finesse, foxiness, guile, knowingness, shrewdness, slyness, wiliness). (various references)

Indonesian

membujuk (cajole, candied, canvass, coax, endlong, gloze, persuade, talk a person into). (various references)

Italian

inganno (catch, cheat, craft, deceit, deception, dupery, flam, gammon, guile, hoax, humbug, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery), astuzia (artfulness, astuteness, cunning, guile, leeriness, ruse, sharpness, shrewdness, slyness, slynesses, stratagem, trick, wangling, wiliness). (various references)

Manx

kialgyn, cur kialg er. (various references)

Pig Latin

ileway.(various references)

Portuguese

seduzir (allure, attract, bait, beguile, betray, debauch, decoy, drain-away, drive, enchant, entice, enticing, gull, inveigle, lure, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp), passar (blow over, come, draw, drew, dub, elapse, fare, give in, go, go beyond, go by, hand, pass, pass by, rake, rake up, slip away, spend, strop, to pass, to spend, transfer, wear off), iludir (avoid, baffle, beguile, bluff, bypass, catch, cheat, deceive, delude, dodge, double-cross, elude, ensnare, evade, hocus-pocus, humbug, impose, lie, mystify, outwit, sklent, trick), fraude (bilk, brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, deception, embezzlement, fraud, graft, guile, humbug, inveracity, ruse, sham, skulduggery, spoof, trickery), estratagema (artifice, coup, craftiness, device, elusion, feint, fetch, finesse, fraud, maneuver, manoeuvre, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery), entreter (amuse, divert, entertain, have, recreate), engodar (attract, decoy, drain-away, entice, lime, lure), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle), embuste (bubble, cantrip, fake, fancy dress ball, hoax, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, humbug, juggle, mystification, quiz, snare, spoof, swindle, take-in, trick, trickery), astúcia (art, artfulness, astuteness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dodge, double, invention, ruse, slyness, stratagem, trick, trickery, tweak), artimanha (cunning, guile, jape, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery, tweak). (various references)

Romanian

viclenie (archness, artfulness, astuteness, catch, contrivance, craft, cunning, devilry, finesse, fraud, guile, ruse, shift, subtlety, vicleim), şiretlic (catch, device, fake, ruse, sharp practice, shift, shuffle, stratagem, trick, trickery). (various references)

Russian 

хитрость (archness, artfulness, catch, circumvention, craft, craftiness, double, fetch, finesse, guile, management, slyness, stealth, stratagem, subtlety, trick, trickery, trickiness, wiliness). (various references)

Scottish

reabh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

varati (betray, cheat, chicane, chouse, deceive, swindle), smicalica (artifice, dodge, gimmick, manipulation, shift, trick), lukavstvo (artifice, craftiness, guile, ruse, slyness, trap, trickery). (various references)

Spanish

estratagema (contrivance, device, feint, frame up, opening gambit, plant, practice, ruse, stratagem, trick), ardid (cunning, ruse, scheme, trick). (various references)

Swedish

list (art, artifice, baguette, cunning, edging, finesse, guile, lath, ledge, ruse, shift, trick). (various references)

Turkish

hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel), cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, prepossess), baştan çıkarmak (allure, corrupt, debauch, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, pervert, seduce, tempt), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt), üçkâğıt (cheat, fiddle, frame up, gadget, have, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, jiggery pokery, rouser, ruse, skin game, swindle, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing). (various references)

Ukrainian

обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization), зваблювати (allure, debauch, decoy), заманювати (allure, bait, entice, rope, tempt), лукавство (arts, craft, craftiness, duplicity, slyness, wiliness), брехливість (deceit, falsehood, mendacity). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mưu mẹo (artifice, ruse, stratagem, trepan, trick, tricky), mưu chước. (various references)

Welsh

ystryw (art, artifice, craft, ruse), dichell (artifice, craft, guile). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wile": wiled, wiles. (additional references)

Words ending with "wile": outwile. (additional references)

Words containing "wile": outwiled, outwiles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Awiel, dwile, dwyle, Gwylim, iwl, Mwila, Qila, Twyla, uile, wacle, wael, waile, wailea, waileo, wala, walle, waloe, Walu, walue, waxle, wayle, weale, weile, wela, wele, welee, Welega, welle, wellen, welo, werle, wial, wibe, Wible, wice, widle, wie, wiel, Wiele, wieley, wielk, wige, wigle, wiiled, wije, wil, wila, wilde, Wilecki, wilen, wiler, wilg, wilge, wili, Wilia, wilig, wilit, Wilke, Wilken, Wilkey, willa, wille, willem, willen, willeo, willi, Willm, willo, Wilm, wiln, wilo, wilod, wilp, wilte, wilten, wime, wipl, witle, Wle, wli, wliz, Wlo, woel, wola, wole, woule, wrile, wulle, wyl, wyle, wyled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lwei.

-1 letter: lei, lie.

-2 letters: el, li, we.

+1 letter: lewis, lweis, while, wield, wiled, wiles.

+2 letters: awhile, bewail, dewily, lawine, mildew, swiple, swivel, wailed, wailer, walies, wallie, weevil, welkin, wellie, whiled, whiles, widdle, widely, wields, wieldy, wifely, wiggle, wiglet, wilder, wilier, willed, willer, willet, wilted, wimble, wimple, windle, winkle, wintle, wisely, woolie.

+3 letters: alewife, bewails, blowier, bowlike, bowline, brawlie, clewing, dwindle, flawier, indwell, indwelt, inkwell, jawlike, jawline, jowlier, lauwine, lawines, lawlike, lewises, lifeway, lowlier, lowlife, mewling, mildews, mildewy, oldwife, outwile, owllike, pinwale, sawlike, slewing, swilled, swiller, swindle, swingle, swiples, swipple, swirled, swivels, swizzle, towline, twiddle, twilled, twinkle, twirled, twirler, wailers, wallies, warlike, waxlike, wearily, weblike, weedily, weevils, weevily, weigela, weirdly, welding, welkins, wellies, welling, welting, wergild, wheelie, whiffle, whirled, whirler, whistle, whitely, whittle, widdled, widdles, wielded, wielder, wiggled, wiggler, wiggles, wigless, wiglets, wiglike, wilders, wildest, wiliest, willers, willets, willied, willies, wimbled, wimbles, wimpled, wimples, windled, windles, winglet, winkled, winkles, winless, wintled, wintles, wirable, witless, woolier, woolies, wriggle, wrinkle.